DNA damage, severe organ lesions and high muscle levels of As and Hg in two benthic fish species from a chemical warfare agent dumping site in the Mediterranean Sea

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2136-2145

  Della Torre, Camilla ^a   Petochi, Tommaso ^b   Corsi, Ilaria ^a   Dinardo, Maria Maddalena ^c   Baroni, Davide ^a   Alcaro, Luigi ^b   Focardi, Silvano ^a   Tursi, Angelo ^c   Marino, Giovanna ^b   Frigeri, Antonio ^c   Amato, Ezio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

As; Biomonitoring; Comet assay; EROD; Hg; Histopathology; Yperite

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC SEA; BENTHIC FISH; BILE DUCTS; BIOINDICATOR; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; BIOMONITORING; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CHEMICAL WEAPONS; CHRONIC ILLNESS; COMET ASSAYS; DNA DAMAGES; DUMPING SITE; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS; EROD ACTIVITY; FISH FILLET; GENOTOXICITIES; HEALTH ASSESSMENTS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; REFERENCE SITES; SENTINEL SPECIES;

BIOMARKERS; CHEMICAL WARFARE; HEALTH RISKS; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; LIVER; MEATS; ONLINE SEARCHING;

MERCURY (METAL);

ARSENIC; MERCURY;

ARSENIC; CHEMICAL WEAPON; DNA; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ELECTROKINESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETHER; FISH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOASSAY; LESION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MUSCLE; OCEAN DUMPING;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BILE DUCT INJURY; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMET ASSAY; CONGER CONGER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DNA DAMAGE; DUMPING; FISH; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOTOXICITY; GILL; GRANULOMA; HELICONELUS DACTYLOPTERUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY; LIVER; LIVER FIBROSIS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; ORGAN INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SKIN; SKIN ULCER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN; STEATOSIS; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ARSENICALS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; COMET ASSAY; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP1A1; DNA DAMAGE; EELS; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GILLS; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LIVER; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SEAFOOD; SKIN; SPLEEN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CONGER; CONGER CONGER; HELICOLENUS DACTYLOPTERUS;

EID: 77649236422     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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